Loose-leaf book or binder



J. W. MYATT. LOOSE LEAF BOOK 0R BiNDER. APPLICATION FILED was, 1920.

1,368,188. Patented Feb. 8, 1921 UhllTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WILLIAM MYATT, 0F TIPTON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO LEDGERS LIMITED, 033 TIIE'ION, ENGLAND.

LOOSE-LEAF BOOK OR BINDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1921.

Application filed August 9, 1920. Serial No. 402,379.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN WILLIAM MYATT, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 37 Victoria road, Tipton, in the county of Stafford, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements Relating to Loose-Leaf Books or Binders of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved loose leaf book or hinder.

The accompanying perspective drawing illustrates a pocketbook constructed in accordance with this invention.

Two covers a are provided having spaced oppositely alined holes 3) near their rear edges, and the front cover having an additional central hole near the rear edge. A length of cord 0 having a knot (Z or other stop on one end is threaded from the inner side to the outer side through the central hole in the front cover and passed down the front cover and through a pair of opposite lower holes to the outer side of the rear cover. Then it is brought down the rear I cover, around the lower edges of the covers,

and through the notches in these edges, along the front side of the front cover, around the upper edges of the covers and through notches in the upper edges down the outer side of the rear cover and afterward threaded through the upper pair of opposite holes. Finally the free end of the cord is brought down the front cover and inserted from the front through the central hole in the front cover and arranged to lie freely on the inside of said cover.

The leaves which are indicated by e and lie between the covers, are notched at their rear edges as indicated at 7 so that they are engaged by the portions of the cord passing through opposite holes between the covers. With the leaves and covers in position and the cord disposed as above described the parts are tightly secured by pulling on the free end of the cord. The latter is prevented from accidental slackening by the frictional. grip of the cover on the free end. To release the covers for changing or renewing the leaves the cord is slackened by a slight pull on an outer portion near the free end.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters l atent is In a loose leaf book or binder, the combination comprising a pair of covers perforated near their rear edges by a plurality of holes, and an inextensible flexible bindcord, means for holding the said cord at one end against detachment from one of the covers the cord being passed from the inside to the outside through a central hole in said cover, brought down outside the said cover, inserted through opposite holes in both covers, brought down the outside of the other cover, around the lower edges of both covers, up along the first cover, across the JOHN WILLIAM MYATT. 

